Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about striving to eliminate measles by vaccination is that there is no clear need to do so. A large group of Swiss doctors formed a working committee questioning the Swiss Health Department's US inspired MMR policy. When the process of general inflammation is suppressed, they said, measles may subsequently affect the ears (otitis), the lungs (pneumonia) or the central nervous system, giving rise to the feared complication: encephalitis.

"We have lost the common sense and the wisdom that used to prevail in the approach to childhood diseases," they concluded.

Adapted from Vaccination: 100 years of orthodox research shows that

vaccine represents a medical assault on the immune system, by Viera Schreiber, Ph. D., Australian Print Group 1993. To order copies, send Aus$30 to Dr Scheibner, 178 Govells Leap Road, Blackheath, New South Wales 2785, Australia.